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Social Sciences

The ‘Glocalization’ of Mobile Telephony in West and Central Africa

by Max A. Smith

Consumer Appropriation and Corporate Acculturation: A Case Study in Cameroon and Guinea-Conakry This book examines the ‘glocalization’ – the adaptation of a global telecommunication…

Anthropology Religion Social Sciences

Ori-Oke Spirituality and Social Change in Africa

by Soede Nathanael Yaovi, Patrick U. Nwosu and Akiti G. Alamu

Contemporary Perspectives The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of…

Gender & Women's Studies Social Sciences

WOMANDLA! Women Power!

by Rolene Miller

Rolene Miller registered Mosaic, Training, Service and Healing Centre to empower abused women, and like a Mosaic ‘to put the broken pieces of their…

African Studies Development Studies Social Sciences

Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World

by Munyaradzi Mawere

The Politics and Sociology of Development in Contemporary Africa It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development…

African Studies Development Studies Economic Development Economics Social Sciences

The Open Veins of Africa

by Tatah Mentan

The Dynamics of Extractive Accumulation by Dispossession in 21st Century Africa There is no discussion on Africa today that does not make reference to…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water

by Leah Junck

An Ethnography on Strategies of Bodily Navigation of Male Refugees in Cape Town In spite of South Africa’s progressive constitution, citizen’s intolerance of non-citizens,…

Democracy Philosophy Politics Social Sciences

The Rational Consumer: Bad for Business and Politics

by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Democracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Debating Witchcraft in Africa

by Didier Péclard and Jean-Pierre Warnier

The “Magritte Effect” Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn’t the flood of anthropological publications on the…

Anthropology Gender & Women's Studies Social Sciences

Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters

by Elaine R. Salo

Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town’s inner periphery, manoeuvre to…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Eating and Being Eaten

by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Cannibalism as Food for Thought This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It…

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